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Motif

Household gods.

Mythological motifs. · Gods. · Gods of the earth. · Local gods. · view the constellation · filed as A411

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Germanic Meyer Germanen 213ff.
  • Roman (Lares and Penates) *Frazer Ovid II 470 n. 1, IV 12ff., Roscher II 1868 s. v. "Lares"
  • Siberian Holmberg Siberian 454
  • Finno-Ugric Holmberg Finno-Ugric 113ff.
  • Estonian Loorits Grundzüge I 543–570
  • Chinese Ferguson 75.
  • general Istrian: Máchal 229
  • general Slavic (general): ibid. 240ff.
Within the index

Filed under Local gods.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Door-gods Kitchen-gods Dairy-god Hearth-god
Filed beside it
City-gods God of roads (streets) God of boundaries God of clans or nations Gods of the Quarters. A god or spirit for each of the world-quarters, north, south, east, and west Deity of particular mountain. (Cf. A495.) Local gods – miscellaneous

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